Kamala Harris would be the first Democrat to succeed a living Democrat as President since James Buchanan if she won

Fair warning that the political press tends not to know much pre-WWII political history. 1924 was the longest Democratic convention, but 1880 was the longest GOP one and it nominated Garfield, who won comfortably. There's no overarching principle here.

With Walz, nearly 40% of Democratic presidential tickets have had a Minnesotan on them over the last 60 years.

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.

Very nice write-up on Grover Cleveland (and A Man of Iron) from William Ruger 🇺🇸. We don't agree on everything — I think Cleveland's foreign policy was too moralistic to support a "realist" label — but this an extremely thoughtful and fair analysis.

Thanks Troy! It's an important book - and I hope people read it and learn from it.

In 2009, George W Bush Invited President Elect Barack Obama and All Living Former U.S Presidents For Lunch

For reference, I once spoke with an Albanian refugee who described how the difficulty of trying to escape the country by swimming across the strait to Corfu was compounded by the Hoxha regime positioning snipers on the bluffs who would try to shoot the swimmers.

My childhood vision of what being an adult would be like never factored in how much time would be spent entering in six-digit PINs that expire in 10 minutes.

Shortly before the 2016 Presidential Election, a poll was taken of Washington University (St. Louis) students to see if they could name all of the American Presidents. One stat included only 8% of them remembering to name Millard Fillmore 🇺🇸 #POTUS 😢

Few things crazier about California than that is has so much going on that the Central Coast, which is a kind of paradise, is an afterthought.

This could've just been a fun (and obviously correct) little piece. It turns out to be a jaw-droppingly great (and funny) piece of investigative journalism.

I love Kite & Key Media content, not just because of how informative it is and absolutely fantastic at breaking down concepts and facts in a fun way, but they are also gosh darn hilarious. I fell over laughing at the Anti-Masonic Party part. Fantastic work.

Was personally pleased to see Troy Senik like this tweet. His book on Grover Cleveland is superb and is precisely the sort of book one should read for historical perspective.